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title: The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps". — Paris · tree and pragmatics
description: The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps". A sentence of Wikipedia's «Paris» with its dependency tree and pragmatics.
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# Paris, sentence 748

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From Wikipedia, [«Paris»](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paris), revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). The trees and pragmatics of these pages, Mova's parse of that text, are CC BY-SA 4.0 too.

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The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps".

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**What happens:** invent · **To what, where:** Invention, Paris

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This is a sentence of the English Wikipedia article «Paris». The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. The article's note marks are left out of the parse.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = wikipedia:Paris:748
# text = The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps".
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Invention	invention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Paris	Paris	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
6	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	History	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Footsteps	footstep	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	"	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **invent** |  |  | Paris |  |  |  |  | nom invention «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**Text:** the English Wikipedia, «Paris», revision of the 2026-09-01 dump, CC BY-SA 4.0. **Tree:** Mova's own parse, CC BY-SA 4.0 as the text is. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the article read in order, CC BY-SA 4.0.

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